There is a concept in fashion that basically says real style is timeless, minimalistic and unfussy. (Also it’s beige, gray, black and white with a touch of red or navy). Whether it’s silhouette, cut, textile; no matter what part of an outfit it is, if you just choose the right pieces with this elusive quality, you can toss out

For me, the changing of the season only ever means one thing: new fashion! Like clockwork, as soon as the earth starts making its slow summer rotation around the sun and the days begin to last long into the night, I start thinking about rotating my wardrobe to the light side.
I crave brighter colors to use as an accent – this year

It was hard for me to pick the worst looks at the first weekend of Coachella – and not because everyone looked so stylish. No, it was hard because there were soooooo many hideous looks to choose from.
Would it be one of the Jenner girls (uh, yeah) or Coachella perennial and serial hair colorist Katy Perry (yes, again) or would it b

No one knows exactly what to call them: Gladiators? Caged? Woven? But shoes – sandals, booties, boots – that crawl up the foot (even all the way up the leg) are having a moment.
Again.
No, it’s not déjà vu – or maybe it is? After all, it was only a handful of seasons ago that we all had to ha

It’s fun to stare dreamily at the trends as they walk down the runways of Paris, Milan and New York but we want to wear this stuff now -- and also, we don’t want to go into debt doing it.
Thanks to “fast fashion” retailers such as H&M, Zara and Topshop, runway-inspired looks hit the stores with lightning-quick

I'll be honest: I never thought Eileen Fisher would be my style. I had filed it in the “when I'm 70” category of fashion; not edgy enough, not hip, I said. Not me.
But the other day, I had the opportunity to watch a runway show of Eileen Fisher's latest collection at Bloomingdale's Fashion Island with a group of committed E.F

Maybe it's my heritage (Italian/Irish on my mom's side and Mexican/Native American on my dad's), but I have a crush on most things Italian, and Milan Fashion Week is no exception.
Something about Italian style manages to look fresh and old world at the same time. The fall/winter 2014 ready-to-wear collections seemed to introduce a girl w

Proving that fashion is more than clothing, the end of London Fashion Week fall/winter 2014 brought collections that reflected the world around them in cozy knits and quilting details (Issa, Pringle of Scotland and Belstaff) and subdued palettes (Erdem, Mary Katrantzou and Tom Ford), architectural references (Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane and

I shouldn't complain. At least that is what I tell myself when I look out the window at the 78-degree-clear-sky-bright-blue day. My East Coast friends are suffering in bitter cold, posting Facebook photos of snow piled up to their windowsills. Here in the solar vortex, we're lucky not to have to deal with any of that. I go to Starbucks do

Any woman with even a passing interest in “Sex and the City” has imagined herself as Carrie Bradshaw … running lightly through New York in the Manolo Blahnik d'Orsays with the oval brooch on their way to cocktails with girls or a date with “Big.”
Or Aidan.
Or Big, then Aidan again.
Or Berger

There was no real reason to pair cats with bags except that nothing says “spring” to me like candy colors, blue skies, bright daisies and the sweet face of a young animal.
(Also, these models work for less than a can of tuna and they don't require all-white M&M's and orchids in their dressing room.)
But this is ab

I only have one word to say:Valentino.
If nothing else came out of Paris Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2014, there would be Valentino. Specifically, the dreamily romantic collection sent down the runway by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino, which featured everything from tutus to gowns ornately embroidered with Garde

One of my wishes for 2014 was to see the trend of men dressing well – and the increasing interest in designer menswear – to continue.After all, it doesn't take much for a man to add a jacket or choose tailored trousers over baggy shorts; it just takes the will. But if you, like many a good man out there, don't have the

I was talking to a young friend recently who got me thinking about myself when I was her age. She had moonlighted as a model for one of our holiday covers and I sent her a copy of the photo with thenote: “Did you see this? So pretty!”
Her reply surprised and saddened me a bit. She confessed she was resisting the urge to pick